When chicken catcher Jimmy Nicks’ job was subcontracted, he started doing the same job for a new boss — only without the pay, protections and benefits he’d come to rely on. The poultry industry needs ...

Hiding behind a backwards cap, Kevin Skinner, 35, wowed judges with his brilliant guitar playing and singing. But expectations were low when the “chicken catcher” from Mayfield, Ky., stepped out onto ...

Like Superman emerging from a phone booth, Armando Parra steps out from the bathroom of his old-time barbershop transformed into the Chicken Catcher, dedicated to ridding this island town of nuisance ...

Kevin Skinner, an unemployed chicken catcher, won the $1 million prize and Las Vegas gig on NBC's "America's Got Talent." The 35-year-old country singer from Mayfield, Kentucky, defeated opera singer ...

As a baseball fan, I'm excited that Time Warner Cable has agreed to allow other cable providers to broadcast the final six Los Angeles Dodger games. Few things are more exciting than a pennant race, ...

Chicken catchers are suing Koch Foods, a large poultry processor based in Park Ridge, claiming foul play in denying them overtime pay for rounding up cage-free birds from farms for slaughter. The ...

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Jack Jones, an assistant city manager in Key West, Fla., where the proliferation of chickens roaming the streets has led the city commissioners to hire a chicken ...